Network Licensing Manager 2017

This blog post was originally written for the Managed Design blog. Managed Design is now a U.S. CAD company, so please check back here at www.uscad.com/blog for more written articles from Philip Charlson and our new U.S. CAD Minnesota team.

The 2017 products are out and that means it is time to start doing new installs and creating images. One related task that is sometimes overlooked is updating LMtools from the server where your network license is stored and that your users access to acquire a license.With each version release it’s good practice to check which version of LMtools is on your server. For the 2017 version, it should look like the image below after updating.

After downloading the current product release and extracting the install files you will see the image below. You can select Install Tools & Utilities to install the current LMtools.

You can update the LMtools without telling your users to shut down their software. You have about a 20 minute window to update the new LMtools with the paths of the new license, lmgrd.exe and debug log file.

Philip Charlson brings over nineteen years of experience in mechanical and architectural design experience to U.S. CAD. He is a certified expert in Revit Architecture and MEP products. In addition, Philip brings twenty five years of CAD/BIM experience on Autodesk products making him an important part of U.S. CAD’s technical team. Philip’s current responsibilities include training, mentoring, writing technical guides, providing technical support, implementing and content creation.

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